The difference between Bill and Charge

Bill as a noun:

Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

Bill as a noun:

A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

Bill as a noun:

Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

Bill as a noun:

A pickaxe, or mattock.

Bill as a noun (nautical):

The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

Bill as a verb (transitive):

To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Bill as a noun:

The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

Bill as a noun:

A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

Bill as a noun:

Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

Bill as a verb (obsolete):

To peck.

Bill as a verb:

To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

Bill as a noun:

A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

Bill as a noun:

A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

Bill as a noun:

A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

Bill as a noun (obsolete, legal):

A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

Bill as a noun (US):

A piece of paper money; a banknote.

Bill as a noun:

A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

Bill as a noun:

A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

Bill as a noun:

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

Bill as a noun:

A set of items presented together.

Bill as a verb (transitive):

To advertise by a bill or public notice.

Bill as a verb (transitive):

To charge; to send a bill to.

Bill as a noun:

The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

Charge as a noun:

The scope of someone's responsibility.

Charge as a noun:

Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

Charge as a noun:

A load or burden; cargo.

Charge as a noun:

The amount of money levied for a service.

Charge as a noun:

An instruction.

Charge as a noun (military):

A ground attack against a prepared enemy.

Charge as a noun:

An accusation.

Charge as a noun (physics, and, chemistry):

An electric charge.

Charge as a noun (basketball):

An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

Charge as a noun:

A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.

Charge as a noun (heraldry):

An image displayed on an escutcheon.

Charge as a noun:

A forceful forward movement.

Charge as a noun (weaponry):

A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

Charge as a noun (farriery):

A sort of plaster or ointment.

Charge as a noun (obsolete):

Weight; import; value.

Charge as a noun (historical, or, obsolete):

A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a .

Charge as a noun (ecclesiastical):

An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

Charge as a verb:

To assign a duty or responsibility to.

Charge as a verb (transitive):

To assign (a debit) to an account.

Charge as a verb (transitive):

To pay on account, by using a credit card.

Charge as a verb (ambitransitive):

To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

Charge as a verb (possibly archaic):

To sell at a given price.

Charge as a verb (law):

To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

Charge as a verb:

To impute or ascribe.

Charge as a verb:

To call to account; to challenge.

Charge as a verb (transitive):

To place a burden or load on or in. To ornament with or cause to bear. To assume as a bearing. To add to or represent on.

Charge as a verb (transitive):

To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials. To cause to take on an electric charge. To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery). (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy.

Charge as a verb (intransitive):

To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. To commit a charging foul. To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.

Charge as a verb (transitive, of a, hunting dog):

To lie on the belly and be still .